May 14, 2011

"Go fuck yourself. Please. Just fucking die already.... You are the worst thing that has ever happened to Wisconsin, and all the red-necked hillbillies that elected you should be ashamed of themselves. It will not be long until my brothers and sisters in Madison have forced you out of office. I sincerely wish you harm, Mr. Governor. I hope you and your dictatorial regime spend (sic) get to spend and (sic) extended amount of time in Hell. Honestly."

Well, there's a civility problem no doubt, but there's no specific mention of what he's going to do except hope tht some calamity befalls the governor. So I would concur that the writer hopes for something awful to happen to the governor, but he's not going to do anything to make that happen, so I think the letter is one inch short of crossing the line. This is a quite light letter for a leftist.

Interesting comments for the original story. The police get a lot of discretion in what leads they follow. I think that was pretty specific and hateful. As for Senator Miller, he was being stupid, and anyone in his employ was stupid. She called the cops and didn't want to get anybody in trouble or anything? Stupid.

Sort of like the left said loads of mean and hateful things about Bush, and that was brushed off. But any little thing about Michelle's husband, and whoa people are knocking at your door. Just a second, the door bell rang, I'll be right back......

Incitement is only a consideration when it's unhinged conservatives making uncivil remarks against liberals. When the remarks come from the left, liberals trip over themselves to excuse it as 'not a death threat per se'.

What was it the Madison cops said during the recent Union Occupations and riots in Madison: "Move along, nothing to see. Just innocent Union thugs protesting that they don't need to to follow any stinking laws."

I was thinking that sometime tonight I would see some snaps of the folks who participated in The “Fight Is Not Over” rally.

I went looking for news coverage about it, but couldn't find much. The only reason I knew about it was because I watch the WIunion hashtag on Twitter, and they were patting themselves on the back for once again showing everyone "what democracy looks like".